Free Republic

Tomorrow the misnamed Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) will hold an "Integrity in Science" conference where attendees will "learn how corporate dollars are used to buy scientists." CSPI's implicit assumption is that any scientific research -- whether on clean energy, food technology, or life-saving pharmaceuticals -- is inherently suspect if any of its support comes from corporate sources. Rather than judge the scientists, CSPI would judge their grantmakers. And of course any criticism of CSPI's brand of "scientific" research coming from corporate-funded sources is inherently flawed. CSPI itself refuses corporate support, so its scientific research should be...